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read between the lines
finally..a rock version of the gospel! "Not since the City On a Hill projects has such unique and original collaborations with top artists been heard in CCM."
[http://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/!Hero.asp]
I so agree. I ain't heard anything as good, anything as "power" as !Hero - the Rock Opera since City on a Hill. honestly. and i ain't heard of a better compilation since. this has got to be the best yet, in fact it's even better than the Spritzer ccm rock compilations. makes me wanna tell all my frens, which i am. n u, dear reader, seriously gotta give it a try. !Hero - the Rock Opera is a modern version of the story of jesus...it's basically like a musical, but not of the boring musical singalong kind. this is more like rock, r&b, hip hop, pop, rap n sentimental all rolled into one 2-disc album, all telling u about the Savior, from the start of His ministry rite up to his death n resurrection. very cool, very relevant...esp for ppl like me. good on the ears for rock / loud music fans who want to, for once, listen to non-explicit, jesus-filled lyrics. n i like the fact that this rock act comprises well-known frontmen from ccm bands...ppl like who else but michael tait from (my fave band) dc talk as hero, john cooper from skillet (another rockin good band....side note: john cooper sounds and looks exactly like daniel johns from silverchair....how cool is that?), mark stuart from audio adrenaline, (the odd one out in terms of genre cos she's not from rock as i recall, but she sure fits in well here) rebecca st. james, n a buncha other ppl i never heard of who sound pretty good. honestly, have u ever heard eminem sing about jesus? i tell u, there's a guy on this track here that sounds jus like eminem that does that....very cool indeed (check him out in the opening song on the official site). i mean, i cudn't believe my ears when i heard this eminem replica rapping about his sick daughter n asking hero (aka. jesus) to heal her [song: Raised in Harlem, based on Matthew 9: 18-26]. n john cooper's in this album too so u got a biblical version of silverchair in here too. in fact, almost every track is based on a passage from the Bible, n it's told in modern, relevant-to-you-and-me kinda language n sung in music more suited to our times. very cool indeed. my personal fave has to be the mark hammitt as the crippled man. he's like kevin max and queen's freddie mercury plus his own distinct style, n anyone who sounds like kevin max is definitely a crowd-puller in my book. i was listening to the track "stand up n walk" (based on John 5:1-18) n i was thinking....since when does a crippled man sound so good? n the setting is set in modern, futuristic times. hero aka. jesus, is born in pennsylvania (aka. modern bethlehem), speaking to the street kids n laypeople in brooklyn n the new york area. the pharisees are agents and spies of ICON (international confederation of nations), which is like the holy-molies of jesus' day. but don't get me wrong...this doesn't stray from the word of the bible, cos the words sung, though modern, are the words from the bible...only the roles and setting has changed. n minor stuff...like when jude aka. judas iscariot kills himself, instead of getting his guts spilled open like it says in the bible, jude shoots himself in this story. unfortch, i ain't seen this album in jb or s'pore....which is relly sad. i got this thing in kl on christmas eve....n since it's 2 discs i paid twice the price...or else i wudda bought an extra one to distribute around u guys. but i'm planning to burn several copies soon.....u can ask me for it. meanwhile check out Hero's official website and snippets of the tracks. i think this cud do relly well in spreading the Word across as well as helping those believers who are struggling like me. !Hero comes out in comics (very cool drawings), some of which are printed alongside the lyric booklet i got in the album, as well as a novel, n most recently, a DVD of the "live" version of !Hero. n yeah, i liked it the first time i listened to it on christmas eve....in fact i played it so much that i slept at 4am that nite... |
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